Traore, left and Mahama.

It was like the kind of drama caused by the late Muammar Gaddafi of Libya when he attended events outside his country. Yesterday, Burkina Faso military leader, Ibrahim Traore, caused a stir during the swearing-in ceremony of Ghana’s new president, John Dramani Mahama, in Accra.

Apart from storming the venue with heavily-armed bodyguards, Traore himself was armed with his service pistol.

Traore

When the crowd saw him in his well-starched, ironed and smart uniform with the side arm, they started shouting: “Traore, Traore, Traore”.

The Burkinabe leader tweeted on his X (@Ibrahiim_traore)
“Congratulations, President John Mahama, on your inauguration as President of the Republic of Ghana.